Learn OSTENSIBLY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
1. Troops were sent in, ostensibly to protect the civilian population.
2. Proceedings can't be prevented from moving forward unless there are some at least ostensible reasons given.
3. Their ostensible goal was to clean up government corruption, but their real aim was to unseat the government.
4. I own that your question embarrasses me, Valentine, for I cannot say that the count has rendered me any ostensible service.
5. But, while he was making this ostensible sacrifice to general considerations, Magua never lost sight of his individual motives.
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